This is the
picture story of our fabric building. We built it not too long after the turn of
the century as a resource for the use of our dog agility equipment. At that
time, Sandy was running Taffy and Curley Sue was just a puppy with Molly. We
looked at many products and finally chose a building that was 40 feet wide and
100 feet long. We had a special area leveled and actually had to move two power
line poles to get the electrical service primaries which go to our property away
from this area. Sandy and I were able to construct the building with help from
her Dad, Sam, and Brother, Mike. We used this barn for dog agility practice for
three to four years. In the winter of 2006 - 2007, an ice storm caused the
building to fail and collapse. We were both outside plowing snow when it
happened. In less than five seconds the entire 100 foot length collapsed with
just the sound of exhausted air from the end doorways. We thank and praise God
that we were not hurt as we could have just as well been in the barn as plowing
snow. The entire dome bent into a giant "M" and fortunately all our agility
equipment was spared any real damage because they were in the raised areas of
the "M". Our RV was in storage in the fabric building and five arches were bent
around the entire vehicle like fingers. We spent the better part of 2007
clearing the fabric barn from the building site. Then we increased the size of
the building site somewhat and built our current 60 feet wide and 120 feet long
metal pole building which we use now for dog agility practice. We remember our
fabric building with great fondness. We called it the TaffyDome and this is
where Curley Sue and Sandy practiced initially. It was a wonderful resource in
which we had a lot of fun.